Gathered into the family of God

UNION COUNTY — what's "The Gathering?"

it will take area over 4 nights at the Union County Stadium starting this Sunday at 6 p.m. and proceed at 7 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

So now you be aware of the place it and when it might be, but that nevertheless doesn't answer the query of just what The Gathering is and why it could be "the adventure that adjustments your lifestyles continually."

The reply to that query has its origins in the early days of Christianity and a miracle that passed off that changed the lives of heaps in a single day and continues to changes lives to today. It's a miracle that the organizers of The Gathering hope to look turn up on the Union County Stadium.

"It's truly an evangelistic outreach ministry effort to all of Union County," Rev. Scott Cannon, Pastor of Jonesville Baptist Church and some of the organizers of The Gathering, pointed out Thursday. "It's just truly an opportunity to share the love of God. He needs all guys to return to Him."

Cannon observed that the name of experience, The Gathering, comes from Chapter 2 of The Acts Of The Apostles, the fourth publication of the new testomony of The Bible.

"It tells of individuals of distinct backgrounds and diverse races that got here to at least one region and the Holy Spirit got here down and moved among them," Cannon talked about. "They realized they have been distant from God."

The 2d chapter of Acts tells the story of "the day of Pentecost" when "devout men, out of every nation under heaven" have been gathered in Jerusalem had been "crammed with the Holy Ghost, and commenced to speak with other tongues, because the Spirit gave them utterance." notwithstanding they had been from many different countries and spoke very distinctive languages, the presence of the Holy Spirit enabled them to "hear we each man in our own tongue."

As remarkable as this become, it changed into handiest a prelude to some thing that became much more crucial.

What, you might ask, may be extra crucial than individuals suddenly being able to understand one an additional in their respective native tongues?

The reply is the message of Jesus Christ as Savior the Apostle Peter delivered in the sermon he preached to the assembled multitude.

"Peter shared with them about Jesus," Cannon observed. "God says that accepting Jesus as Savior and Lord is the only to be rightly involving Him (God)."

That became the message that Peter preached that day and the effects of that sermon and the message of the fact of Jesus Christ as Savior were even more miraculous than the multitude realizing all the languages being spoken.

"The Bible records that three thousand approved Jesus that day and were gathered into God's household," Cannon said.

In different phrases, the Day of Pentecost saw peoples from all nations gathered together in Jerusalem after which, through their acceptance of Jesus as their Lord and Savior following Peter's sermon, gathered together in the family of God. The organizers of The Gathering were in a similar way working to compile the peoples of Union County involving no longer simplest the Baptist churches like Jonesville Baptist but other denominations as neatly. the trouble has also reached across racial lines because the Pacolet River Baptist affiliation is additionally helping to sponsor the event.

As happened on the Day of Pentecost, Cannon and his fellow organizers are hoping that The Gathering will see more americans come collectively in the understanding and acceptance of Christ as their Lord and Savior as the simplest technique to be brought into the household of God.

"we are praying that God can have yet another gathering right here in Union County," Cannon observed.

The message of The Gathering could be delivered in sermon by way of Rev. Brad Goodale and Dr. James Mason and in song by "Serenity" and "Assembled."

Charles Warner may also be reached at 864-762-4090.